Has an AFL game ever ended 85-69?
It has. 85-69 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Essendon beat St Kilda on April 22, 1961; the latest was West Coast beat Melbourne on May 17, 2019.
That makes 85-69 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 86-69 has happened 6 times and 85-70 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 37 years, between 1972 and 2009.